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Self-Portrait, Cannibal/Reversal/Break In/Benediction and Self-Portrait, Shipping Container/Driving Through Night/Jury

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Ching-In Chen
Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 332–334.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7775740
Published: 01 October 2019
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Beyond Tragedy: Black Girlhood in Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women and Evelyne Trouillot’s Rosalie l’infâme

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Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 49–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9554057
Published: 01 April 2022
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Abstract This study explores the relationship between past and future in neo-slave narratives that feature Black girl protagonists. Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women tells the story of six enslaved women and their youngest recruit Lilith, as they organize a slave...
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“A Shared Queerness”: Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Sexuality in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night

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Grace Kyungwon Hong
Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 73–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2006.7.1.73
Published: 01 September 2006
...Grace Kyungwon Hong Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 GRACE KYUNGWON HONG "AShared Queerness" ColonialismT,ransnationalisma,nd Sexualityin ShaniMootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night A passage from Shani Mootoo's 1996 novel CereuBs loomsat Nightdemonstrates the author's fascination with flora...
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Figure 4. Frederico sees Bilquis on her wedding night.

Frederico sees Bilquis on her wedding night.

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in Polemics of Love and the Family in A New Day in Old Sana’a > Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 4. Frederico sees Bilquis on her wedding night. More
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Figure 5. Stood up by Tariq: Bilquis on her wedding night.

Stood up by Tariq: Bilquis on her wedding night.

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in Polemics of Love and the Family in A New Day in Old Sana’a > Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
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Twenty-three people, including college students and visiting artists, gathered around a table holding possum pelts. Pelts are laid out side-by-side in the rectangular shape of a possum-skin cloak. Color photograph.

First night of class together. Students are introduced to possum-skin pelts...

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in The Making Is the Story: Sovereignty, Sharing, and the Seven Sisters Cloak > Meridians
Published: 01 April 2025
Figure 1. First night of class together. Students are introduced to possum-skin pelts and artists begin to arrange them into the shape of a cloak. Resident artists Maree Clarke at left (with right arm outstretched over table), Kerri Clarke at bottom center (with back to camera), and Mitch Mahoney More
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Mourning in America: A Black Mother’s Blues Song: for the mothers of Tamir Rice & Tyre King

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Karsonya Wise Whitehead
Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 1–4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.1.02
Published: 01 December 2016
... take the day off standing still to find myself as these are not just my nightmares or shadows only appearing to me as real these are shared these are ours morning time takes us all in i've been up crying all night, writing all night, ranting all night, meditating all night running back and forth...
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Body, Bones, and All

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Uddipana Goswami
Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 84–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8913118
Published: 01 April 2021
.... And me too. So I dug up my dead baby one night and burnt him to his bones. My living son whimpered in my arms. The flames were too hot. So I took him down to the cool waters of the river. The river taunted me. It promised me freedom, if only I took with me my song. I also didn’t like it that babies...
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Lumpectomy Eve

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Lucille Clifton
Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-3.2.5
Published: 01 March 2003
...Lucille Clifton Copyright © 2003 by Wesleyan University Press 2003 LUCILLE CLIFTON lumpectomeyve all night I dream oflips that nursed and nursed and the lonely nipple lost in loss and the need to feed that turns at last on itself that will kill its body for its hunger's sake all night I hear...
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Performance and the Gendered Body in Jamaica Kincaid's “Girl” and Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice

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Carol Bailey
Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 106–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.2010.10.2.106
Published: 01 March 2010
..., practiced, and reenacted: I gauged how much of that cool I could get right, practiced the walk All the nights I studied their movement from the upstairs window-the way they pulled the bright cigarette stub, and then swung down the hand, grab the crotch, shift to the other leg. That stance is all I could...
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Between Us: A Bio-Poem

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Aisha S. Durham
Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 177–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.2.177
Published: 01 March 2008
... [Meridians:feminism,racet,ransnationalism 2008, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 177-182) © 2008 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 177 when she floated around the corner scouting a fix, my eyes fixated on her missing tooth, her bruises, her babygirl, Don'ttell yourmama I am here in Lynchburg covering night cops watching Oprah...
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Inquisitor and Insurgent: Black Woman with Pencil, Sharpened

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Nikky Finney
Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 214–221.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2006.7.1.214
Published: 01 September 2006
..., and unchangeable. A pencil could be said to have a mind of its own. The dark sweet mind of a pencil had to be nurtured and lured out into the sunshine. Sometimes the tip of a pencil had to be licked in order to start it up after a long night's sleep. You could sign your life away with a pen and never know what...
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How Sukie Come Free

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Sheree Renée Thomas
Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 185–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-2.2.185
Published: 01 March 2002
... but grunt. Saywhen she come out of that hole that night, she was spirit talking, whispering words ain't no body live long enough to know the meaning to. Saying, steela deenah nah deelastee steela deenah nah deela stee steeeela!deenah! Steela!Steela! Whispering then shouting and yelling them words, part...
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Woman Song

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Carol Bailey
Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 257–260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004.5.1.257
Published: 01 September 2004
...: Night after night I trudge the tar day after day I face the war. (1-4) The difficulty is highlighted in the poem's diction. Words such a "struggle," "hard," and "strive" are repeated throughout the poem and emphasize the woman's ongoing battle to survive in a harsh and unfriendly city.This woman has...
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“That Little Boy”: An English Translation of Jyotirmoyee Devi's Bengali Short Story “Shei Chheleta”

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Debali Mookerjea
Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 128–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-2.2.128
Published: 01 March 2002
... siblings and cousins were served dinner rotis with lentils, pickle, and milk. Her grandmother, father, and uncles finished their meal too. It was already dark in the cold winter night. Some local residents were taking after-dinner strolls, some were resting. After the rest of the family had finished...
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The Mourning of My Birth in the Wake of Grandma’s One Hundredth Year

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K. Melchor Quick Hall
Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9882064
Published: 01 October 2022
... this kind of travel, which doesn’t involve New England weather, outdoor steps, and too-high car seats. While she used to ask about going for car rides, she now stands up and announces that she wants to “go around the circle.” The other night, Grandma announced that she was going around the circle to say...
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Elegy for Mary Turner

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Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8117702
Published: 01 April 2020
... in the road, palmetto thickets, loblolly pines, Spanish moss, turgid    puddles and ponds choked by duckweed Dirt rich with meaty grubs white and round Opossums and raccoons at night Scavenging, foraging, picking their way through the undergrowth, in rubbish bins, on    porches and in sheds with nasty...
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Selected Poems

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Conceição Evaristo, Maria Aparecida Salgueiro de Andrade, Antonio D. Tillis
Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 84–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.14.1.07
Published: 01 June 2016
... Body In memoryofAdiioVentura' In the darkness of the night my equal body diffuses dangers deciphers messages whistles and tam-tams 2 In equal darkness my night body opens volcanically the ethnic skin that dresses me. In the darkness of the night my equal body floats tears, oceanlike, sieving searches...
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Malè Pa Gen Klaksonn : A Personal Experience of a Foretold yet Unavoidable Disaster

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Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo
Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 98–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.1.98
Published: 01 September 2011
... out but a beam fell on his wrist when he was almost out. He could not free himsel£ 100 MERIDIANS 11:1 Night under a Star-studded Sky It took hours to free my brother, thanks only to the help of neighbors from the slum, and then hours to clean his wounds. Bymidnight, we were all gathered. Those who...
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Ironing, Ironing

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Nellie Wong
Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 122–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-3.1.122
Published: 01 September 2002
... and iron, silent with our unexpressed dreams. "Marriage, hmphh!" blurted Bah Bah one night, and I said nothing, I only ironed and ironed, thinking the hissing of the steam iron was noisy enough for the both of us. Now I practically dance as I iron because I've had so much practice retrieving from my woven...
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